Don Eddy
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Don Eddy is an American painter who gained initial fame as a photorealist; but his recent works have veered into the realm of metaphysics
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In the 1970s, Eddy's works paid homage to cars and the urban cityscape. In the 1980s, his work was more object oriented—depicting glassware, silverware, and toys on a reflective series of glass shelves. Often composed of diptychs
or polyptychs
, he juxtaposes images in poetic relationship to one another—"echoing ecosystems," as the artist calls these connections of structure.
Metaphysics
Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world, although the term is not easily defined. Traditionally, metaphysics attempts to answer two basic questions in the broadest possible terms:...
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In the 1970s, Eddy's works paid homage to cars and the urban cityscape. In the 1980s, his work was more object oriented—depicting glassware, silverware, and toys on a reflective series of glass shelves. Often composed of diptychs
Diptych
A diptych di "two" + ptychē "fold") is any object with two flat plates attached at a hinge. Devices of this form were quite popular in the ancient world, wax tablets being coated with wax on inner faces, for recording notes and for measuring time and direction.In Late Antiquity, ivory diptychs with...
or polyptychs
Polyptych
A polyptych generally refers to a painting which is divided into sections, or panels. The terminology that follows is in relevance to the number of panels integrated into a particular piece of work: "diptych" describes a two-part work of art; "triptych" describes a three-part work; "tetraptych"...
, he juxtaposes images in poetic relationship to one another—"echoing ecosystems," as the artist calls these connections of structure.
Sources
- Donald Kuspit, The End of Art (2004)
- Donald Kuspit, New Old Masters (2007)
- H.W. Janson, History of Art.